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Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Isbel A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Seb A bunch of special forces soldiers in Cambodia get blown up and one of them wakes up on the autopsy table apparently fine, except he's got a scorpion inside his arm. He shows no life signs but is otherwise perfectly normal. His friends seem to have come off worse, waking up as more traditional people chomping zombies.At first the situation seems quite interesting and you go along with it but the crappy Pulp Fiction style popular culture chats about movies and suchlike between the main character and the black sidekick quickly get very tedious.I've got to give it a four out of fairness because it's watchable, but I didn't find it funny or really that interesting after the first half hour. Most people seem to have liked this one but I think that says more about the ever decreasing expectations of the audience than the quality of this movie. It's got some OK zombie moments and reasonable acting but they could have put all that military hardware and zombie makeup to far more entertaining use.

MartianOctocretr5 A bunch of soldiers get blown up by a hand grenade. When the bodies are shipped home, one of the victims reanimates while his autopsy is being performed. How? A scorpion is living in his arm. Then his buddies do the same and they transform into zombies.It's all just an excuse for the usual zombie formula: a few humans are getting picked off one by one by an ever-increasing mob of low-paid extras with some Halloween war paint yelling and screaming in deep-gurgle language. The humans always have dozens of guns and rifles that never seem to run out of ammunition, blasting the ghouls in the forehead or chest where they always seem to explode into red dye. Although this film takes a slight turn: a few of the infected have black blood; I guess the evil scientist and his scorpion minions had a hand in that. The dumb sidekick who won't shut his mouth and spews out lousy cultural reference jokes is just annoying; I kept hoping he'd get it.Plenty of spraying blood and carcasses on the ground. It's got a lot of all the zombie necessities. The only thing it lacked apparently was a budget.

plum I'm new to this genre, and "Dead and Deader" was a nice intro to it. There's a lot of instant gratification in this movie. The movie is well paced; so I was constantly entertained. The "good guys" zoom from unexpected place to place, which I enjoyed – an army kitchen, a morgue, a funeral parlor, a creepy bar with girl dancing in a bikini top, inside a huge freezer, a boutique with cool costumes, etc. etc. The "bad guys" get massacred in creative ways you haven't seen before (antlers and meat grinders come into play). I thought the writing was creative. I liked that the zombie infection was mixed up with Cambodian scorpions called "Jindoo" (great name).No matter how disgusting and threatening the surroundings, that fine triumvirate of Bobby, Judson, and Holly actually seem to be enjoying themselves more than they are terrified of the experience. They have great chemistry and make the audience enjoy the ride too. That's the real charm of this movie. Despite life and death being at stake, there is zero forced drama. The conversations are funny. There's some sexual tension, which is nice. Holly moves her face and body in alluring ways. Dean Cain is perfectly heroic. I couldn't help smiling at Judson's comedic delivery. Terrifically, Colleen Camp even shows up. She's like "You're off to find a dead body? Count me in!" I'm paraphrasing. But you get the idea -- even the serious moments are fun. I watched the DVD special features, which tell you about inside references that hard core fans of the genre will appreciate. I think it's the type of flick you can watch over and over; enjoying it more each time as you catch subtle details.

Evaluator This is a good one. Considering it's a TV movie it preforms really well and keeps the entertainment going throughout the movie. Some scenes tend to be bothersome, for example when the military truck breaks down. There was no scene that lead to that, it went from sitting there in truck to standing outside the broken down truck. It's almost like there was a scene before that and it was removed. Good movie with graphic violence which tends to keep people watching whether they want to admit it or not. Lots of random action /graphic violence scenes that happen out of nowhere. Caine always has something cocky to say after achieving something further in the story like killing a zombie. The only reason it didn't get a higher rating is because it wasn't a major motion picture. But it should have been. It surely doesn't compare to Dawn Of The Dead or like 28 days later, but it's still worth the watch. One thing I found interesting was they never used a whole load of CGI graphics like most TV movies do(excessively). For example the zombies are people dressed up as zombies not computer generated images. Even gun shots and things like that seem real. In one scene where Caine(Bobby) first meets the character "Johnson" and Johnson shoots the insect on the tile floor. The insect is destroyed but the tiles are left clean. You would think a double barrel shotgun would mark any floor in some which way or form. Enjoy the flick.